Sources: The Straits Times
Japan's Nikkei 225 stock market index falls by more than 12%, suffering its worst two-day decline ever and its largest daily percentage drop since Black Monday in October 1987. 2024-08-5
After his escape from Japan, Carlos Ghosn's Japanese lawyer Junichiro Hironaka and seven other members of his defense resign. Hironaka says Ghosn's escape was a "complete surprise". 2020-01-16
South Korea's finance minister Hong Nam-ki presses Japan to take steps to lift its export restrictions. 2019-11-20
The death toll from heavy rains in Japan rises to 179 while 67 other people are still missing. 2018-07-11
36 people are killed by landslides in Hiroshima, Japan, after a night of heavy rain. 2014-08-21
The Japanese National Police Agency reveals that 90 per cent of cyberattacks on its web site on July 10 came from Internet Protocol addresses in the People's Republic of China. [http:--mdn.mainichi.jp-mdnnews-national-news-20110826p2g00m0dm011000c.html (MDN)]date=August 2019 2011-08-26
A small amount of radiation is found on vegetables exported from Japan to Taiwan but the amount is too small to harm human health. [http:--www.theguardian.pe.ca-Canada---World-Business-2011-03-20-article-2347183-Taiwan-says-radiation-detected-on-batch-of-Japanese-peas,-but-levels-not-harmful-1 (Canadian Press via "Prince Edward Island Guardian")]date=August 2019 2011-03-20
Three Japanese employees of Fujita Corporation detained by China for allegedly intruding in a restricted area in Hebei Province are released while a fourth remains in custody. 2010-09-30
It is revealed that "AHS Centaur", an Australian hospital ship dating from World War II, has been viewed for the first time since it was torpedoed by the Japanese in May 1943 killing 268 people. 2010-01-10